Evaluating Factors Affecting the Satisfaction of War Tourists in Iran to Make Sustainable Decisions about the Parameters Influencing the Quality of Travel Using the Quality Functio... by Mohammad Mahdi Mohtadi, Seyedeh Najmeh Motavallizadeh

“…The involvement of most other institutions and organizations and the use of their subtleties were also identified as the most critical qualitative factors influencing the research.Originality/Value: The issue of quality management in tourism still needs more scientific attention. …”
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Factitious Oral Ulcers in a 6-Year-Old Boy by Priscilla Santana Pinto Gonçalves, Daniela Alejandra Cusicanqui Mendez, Paulo Sérgio da Silva Santos, José Humberto Damante, Daniela Rios, Thiago Cruvinel

“…Factitious ulcers are characterized by self-inflicted lesions with multifactorial origin. These lesions are frequently found in head, neck, and hands. …”
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Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Genesis of the Chazi Geothermal Field Area in Tibet by Mingzhong Song, Xujuan Lang, Zhennan Zhong, Fengxin Kang, Dawa Nan, Haoting Li, Haowen Yu, Shaoyun Liu, Sihang Han, Zhao Liu

“…Combined with the fracture structure and magmatic activity characteristics of the southwest Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the source, storage, cover, and general situation of the area were preliminarily summarised, and the conceptual model of geothermal origin was established. The results can provide a scientific theoretical basis for the mechanism of high-temperature geothermal systems and subsequent drilling and resource development.…”
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The effectiveness of different bio preparations on the seed and market quality of organic produced soybean by Dimitrijević Snežana, Filipović Vladimir, Buntić Aneta, Milić Marija, Ugrenović Vladan, Popović Vera, Perić Vesna

“…For that purpose, mixtures of microbiological strains (Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus simplex, Bacillus amiloliquefaciens, Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus megatherium, Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Azotobacter chroococum) were used, with the addition of liquid fertilizers of plant origin enriched with K, Ca and Mg. The use of microbiological strains in the cultivation of organic soybeans has a significant effect on increasing the content of proteins and vegetable oils in soybeans, as well as on the values of morphological parameters and yield in the crop of organically produced soybeans. …”
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Correlation between Chest CT Severity Scores and the Clinical Parameters of Adult Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia by Ghufran Aref Saeed, Waqar Gaba, Asad Shah, Abeer Ahmed Al Helali, Emadullah Raidullah, Ameirah Bader Al Ali, Mohammed Elghazali, Deena Yousef Ahmed, Shaikha Ghanam Al Kaabi, Safaa Almazrouei

“…All patients underwent two consecutive RT-PCR tests and had a noncontrast HRCT scan done at presentation. From the original cohort of 1062 patients, 160 patients were excluded leaving a total number of 902 patients. …”
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Fatal Retroperitoneal Bleeding Caused by Neurofibromatosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Patrick R. Moerbeek, Jesse M. van Buijtenen, Baukje van den Heuvel, Arjan W. J. Hoksbergen

“…Furthermore, it points out the necessity of focused assessment with ultrasonography of the abdomen in all patients with PEA of unknown origin.…”
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A New Asymmetric Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Cloud Banking Data by Zana Thalage Omar, Fadhil Salman Abed, Shaimaa Khamees Ahmed

“…Our current research provides a new algorithm for a publicly-keyed encryption system to keep bank data from tampering and theft when stored on the cloud computing platform, and our new system achieves fully Homomorphic Encryption, which allows mathematical operations to be performed on the encrypted text without the need for the original text. The security of the new system depends on the issue of analyzing huge integers, which reach 2048 bits, to their prime factors, which are considered almost impossible or unsolvable. …”
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Reduced Serum Butyrylcholinesterase Activity Indicates Severe Systemic Inflammation in Critically Ill Patients by Aleksandar R. Zivkovic, Karsten Schmidt, Annette Sigl, Sebastian O. Decker, Thorsten Brenner, Stefan Hofer

“…Systemic inflammation is an immune response to a nonspecific insult of either infectious or noninfectious origin and remains a challenge in the intensive care units with high mortality rate. …”
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An Ultrafast Image Simulation Technique with Spatially Variable Point-spread Functions by Zeyu Bai, Peng Jia, Jiameng Lv, Xiang Zhang, Wennan Xiang, Lin Nie

“…Our approach first decomposes original images into PSF basis derived with the principal component analysis method. …”
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Assessment and application of tropical cyclone clustering in the South China Sea by Yan Yan, Nergui Nanding, Xiaomeng Li, Yifan Shi, Bing Chen

“…In this study, three commonly used methods (K-means, Fuzzy C-Means, and Self-Organizing Maps) are assessed for clustering historical TC tracks that originated in the South China Sea from 1949 to 2023. …”
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Image Analysis Based Grading of Bladder Carcinoma. Comparison of Object, Texture and Graph Based Methods and Their Reproducibility by Heung‐Kook Choi, Torsten Jarkrans, Ewert Bengtsson, Janos Vasko, Kenneth Wester, Per-Uno Malmström, Christer Busch

“…All the methods were originally developed and tested on material from one patient and then tested for reproducibility on entirely different patient material. …”
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A Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumor Presenting as a Mixed Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis by Gabriel Cojuc-Konigsberg, Isabel Natera-Comte, Blanca E. López Graciano, Luis Gerardo Mosqueda López, José Alonso Ávila-Rojo, Braulio Martínez, Juan C. Ramírez-Sandoval

“…After tumor resection and treatment, cryoglobulins decrease to 0%, suggesting a paraneoplastic origin of the vasculitis. Conclusion. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of MCS possibly attributable to a NSGCT. …”
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The components of evaluating the effectiveness of factors affecting the academic silence of secondary school students: Thematic analysis approach by Mohammad Ali Pirkamali, Hasan Rahimi, Ahmad Aryainasab, Nematollah Pirkamali, Mahdiye yahyavezhad

“…In order to check the reliability and originality, the criteria of Goba and Lincoln (1980) method were used. …”
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Providing a Framework for Implementing Agile Big Data-based Supply Chain (Case Study: FMCG Companies) by Hamed Nozari, Javid Ghahremani-Nahr

“…In this study, the components affecting supply chain agility are identified based on big data from the Internet of Things, and the conceptual framework of agile supply chain is presented.Findings: The results provide a framework that intelligently identifies the agility needs of the organization and strives to achieve them, thus creating a more competitive advantage for the company, increasing customer satisfaction, and expanding the organization's market share.Originality/Value: This framework can be a practical guide to implementing an agile and clean supply chain based on big data.…”
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Hemodynamic disturbance and mTORC1 activation: Unveiling the biomechanical pathogenesis of thoracic aortic aneurysms in Marfan syndrome by Ming-Yuan Liu, Meili Wang, Junjun Liu, An-Qiang Sun, Chang-Shun He, Xin Cong, Wei Kong, Wei Li

“…Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) significantly endangers the lives of individuals with Marfan syndrome (MFS), yet the intricacies of their biomechanical origins remain elusive. Our investigation delves into the pivotal role of hemodynamic disturbance in the pathogenesis of TAA, with a particular emphasis on the mechanistic contributions of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling cascade. …”
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Kansei Analysis of the Japanese Residential Garden and Development of a Low-Cost Virtual Reality Kansei Engineering System for Gardens by Tatsuro Matsubara, Shigekazu Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi, Yukihiro Matsubara

“…To render complex garden scenes, we developed an original 3D computation and rendering library built on Java. …”
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Systematic Review of Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Treatment Facilities by Samantha R. Fashler, Lynn K. Cooper, Eric D. Oosenbrug, Lindsay C. Burns, Shima Razavi, Lauren Goldberg, Joel Katz

“…Inclusion criteria stipulated that studies be original research, survey more than one pain treatment facility directly, and describe a range of available treatments. …”
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Citizens of the Global South value urban green space: an example from Iran by Sahel Azizkhani Shadisheh, Kamran Shayesteh, Michael Farmer, Gad Perry

“…Principal component analysis identified four key predictors of WTP: economic status, geographic origin, gender, and aesthetic preference. Despite the average per capita monthly income in Iran being below $450, Iranians show an appreciation of UGSs, suggesting that citizens of other economically challenged countries would like to see greater investment in UGSs.…”
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Prosumer: A new approach to conceptualisation by Myriam Ertz, José María Barragán Maravilla, Xinyuan Cao

“…The content analysis informed the exploration of the origins of the prosumer concept and the development of a contemporary definition of this concept. …”
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The demographic history of the wild crop relative Brachypodium distachyon is shaped by distinct past and present ecological niches by Minadakis, Nikolaos, Williams, Hefin, Horvath, Robert, Caković, Danka, Stritt, Christoph, Thieme, Michael, Bourgeois, Yann, Roulin, Anne C.

“…Closely related to economically important crops, the grass Brachypodium distachyon has been originally established as a pivotal species for grass genomics but more recently flourished as a model for developmental biology. …”
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